It’s the time of year again when you get to spend more hours joggling outdoors. Yeah!!
Of course, that also means your lungs will be filled up with much more unfiltered outdoor air. Not a problem if you live in the country and don’t suffer from allergies. But if you live in an [...]
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Here is a handy weight tool for anyone who is interested in how much the “experts” think you should weigh.
Just put in your height and it will tell you how much you should weigh.
I’m right at the top of the healthy weight range (189 lbs). Not the way to be a fast joggler.
And try [...]
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Training for a marathon takes motivation, focus and concentration. Joggling can make it even harder.
You may find that the hardest days are those when you’re training schedule calls for a 20 miler. But it’s not that the running or joggling is necessarily hard. It’s more that the thought of spending hours and hours on [...]
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Previously, we talked about how calorie restriction diets can increase your life expectancy, but the side effects will be distasteful to most people. At least they would be distasteful to this joggler.
Here is some interesting science that shows eventually you may be able to get the benefits of a calorie restriction diet without actually [...]
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To get to the coffee room at work, it takes me 76 steps. If I want to visit the bath room, it takes 84 steps. It’s about 435 steps from my car to my cubicle. I know this because I’ve counted.
Curiosity compels me to count.
People have suggested my proclivity for counting and [...]
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Sunday’s workout featured 18 miles of joggling on snow covered, icy paths. It even had 3 incidences of slipping and falling without making a brilliant saving catch. The pain experienced and the annoyance of running so slow is starting to wear on me. Is there anything positive about being a marathon joggler [...]
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As a joggling blogger and scientist, I spend a lot of time looking through internet links and scientific papers. Here’s one about some real science looking at the benefits of juggling in older individuals. It was published in the journal Age and Ageing.
It’s interesting. They took a group of 278 older adults [...]
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At 3:48 am a pounding headache woke me up. My tinnitus rang as loud as a fire alarm and my head felt like I’d just been cold cocked by an angry drunk after telling him he’d have to get through me before I’d let him pummel my little brother. For a brief moment, [...]
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It’s midway through training for the London Marathon and it’s starting to wear on me. Maybe it’s the looming daily run of the joggling streak, the constant leg and body pain, the hours of feet pounding, or this crappy Chicago winter weather, but my motivation is vanishing faster than a white tiger in a [...]
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Here’s an interesting study reported on at NPR. It seems that people are able to improve their physical fitness just by thinking about it. This same technique could be used to improve your joggling and even your juggling ability.
Maid study
Researchers at Harvard studied a group of maids and their exercise habits. They [...]
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